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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gumby!andrews-cc!gillham From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Ultimate BSD PC Hardware Setup Date: 19 Sep 1995 03:23:57 GMT Organization: Andrews University Lines: 34 Message-ID: <43ld4d$q3f@orion.cc.andrews.edu> References: <43df2f$id@future.internexus.net> <MICHAELV.95Sep17014633@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <43in9e$210@shell1.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: edmund.cs.andrews.edu In article <43in9e$210@shell1.best.com> rcarter@best.com (Russell Carter) writes: > >Just a little bit curious, but Michael L. VanLoon, how many FreeBSD >systems do you have experience with? Have you ever tried to connect a >PCI controller to a drive? I thought you only had EISA experience. >Now the NCR is a fine controller but there are a couple of drives that >it is not happy with, and you really ought to not plant bombs here. Ack?! Is is the NCR or the Quantums? I've run FreeBSD on my ASUS SP3G, with a Micropolis 2217.. _cheap_, _cheap_, _cheap_. I would second the BusLogic recommendation. They send out ROMs for _FREE_, and the boards are all software compatible. Also, they didn't try to pull a fast one on everybody with proprietary hardware/firmware. (i.e. AIC77XX) Kind of the same reason Diamond was always looked down on. >Maybe more to the point, does NetBSD support the Quantum Grand Prix Yes, the NetBSD driver still has problems with Quantum drives. >series? Or even more to the point, Microsoft? That's who is paying >your wages these days, right? > >Russell Don't be a Richard Noggin eh? What does Michael's employer have to do with anything? -Andrew -- ============================ Real 32bit multi-tasking UN*X System Andrew Gillham | TCP/IP,NFS,PPP,4.4BSD-lite,multi-user gillham@andrews.edu | i386,sparc,alpha,mac68k,amiga,others LAN/WAN/NW/UN*X specialist | ---> http://www.NetBSD.org <---